Making your digital technologies work for people, society and the planet
Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
With the fast pace of technological development, it can be difficult to find the time to consider how the digital tools you use in your work might impact the wider world. Even well-intentioned technologies can end up doing harm by deepening inequalities or causing environmental damage.
Designed for anyone building, developing or deploying digital technologies in their organisation, this interactive workshop introduces the Digital Good Builder – a free, online tool built to enable your technology to have good outcomes for people, society and the planet. The Digital Good Builder team will walk through the ten measures underpinning the Builder, giving you concrete, actionable steps to take to align your technology with your organisation’s values.
Developed by the ESRC Digital Good Network, the tool draws on real-world research and evidence.
28 October 2026, 14:00 – 15:30
Sheffield, UK